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She leaned up on her tip toes, and he leaned down letting her press her mouth to his. Slater didn’t touch her back or let himself kiss her. He knew if he did, he would leave here right now with her slung over his shoulder. It was probably the safest and nicest idea, but he didn’t want Sammy angry with him for embracing her.

Sammy backed away from him. “What’s up?”

“I’m pissed. We need to get out of here now. Please, you’ll thank me later.”

Sammy studied him before she nodded. “Let me help put this stuff out, and then we’ll leave. Gretel, Lena, this is Slater. Slater, this is Gretel and Lena. Gretel, I don’t mean to be rude, but you don’t mind if we help put this stuff out to the dinner table outside, then leave?”

Slater knew that was probably the best he would get. Sammy wouldn’t just leave without helping and then saying bye. “Nice to meet you.”

Gretel smiled and passed him the potato bake. “That’s fine. You can go. You’ve been here for a while.” Slater narrowed his eyes then. The woman knew something was going on. “Let’s go feed the hordes.”

Slater walked behind Sammy as she grabbed the salad and a large box of knives and forks.

The farther outside they got the shakier Sammy got.Crap!The other precinct was already there. When she placed the food she had on the table Slater looked around and saw half the eyes were on Sammy.

“I didn’t say anything. I didn’t say anything,” Sammy whispered over and over.

Slater concentrated on the smells around him using his shifter senses. Fear, anger, astonishment, and hate. He shoved the potato bake down and wrapped his arms around Sammy, who, he could tell, was barely holding it together.

He was going to kill Brock. Slater was glad he had come now, and he wished he’d been here earlier to get Sammy away sooner. He had to get Sammy out now.

“I didn’t tell anyone anything. I haven’t told anyone. I promise.” Sammy voice was getting louder, and she shook in his embrace. “I kept all your secrets.”

He let his bear show through and used all his shifter senses, growling when he heard muttering, that to human ears would be silent. He could hear the human’s heartbeats start to race. What he was surprised at though was that shifters were among the group, and they now knew we’d found them and they had nothing to lose.

“I thought Greg killed her the last time she went out with her friends.”

“Stupid slut deserved to die. She’s going to expose us all if she doesn’t shut up.”

“Why did he let her live? She knows too much.”

The last whispered comment had his bear ready to kill.

“Why didn’t Michael kill her? We told him she was compromised.”

Slater watched as Brock, his partner, and two other shifters attacked the guys who’d spoken. Brock took a hold of one and threw him. Brock then went up into the face of a panther shifter, and a wolf stood to the side of the panther.

“You want to tell me why the hell I’m not challenging you in form to a death match?”

The wolf shrugged and glared at Sammy. “We don’t all have a trust fund, bear. This job doesn’t pay enough. I didn’t know the human was important.”

“If we’d known she was your mate we would have stopped him,” the panther said in a whisper only the shifters could hear, and now Sammy thanks to them mating her.

Brock snarled. “I, Brock Bear, challenge you both. It shouldn’t matter if she was my mate or not. You don’t treat humans that way. Because of your neglect shifters were killed also.” Brock’s voice got louder so everyone could here. “Breakaway precinct has just sealed its fate.”

Eight officials stepped into the circle that had formed around Sammy. They flashed Internal Affairs badges.

“Thanks, Albert, for helping the investigation along. Detective Bear, we appreciate all your help, but we can take it from here.”

“I’m not done with them.” Brock attacked the two shifters, and all hell broke loose.

Slater placed Sammy behind him as four guys came at her yelling, “Kill her! She knows too much, and we have nothing too lose.”

Sammy screamed and gripped his back. “I would never tell. I didn’t tell.”

The men and women around them from Brock’s precinct came to his and Brock’s aid, and some helped the Internal Affairs get control of the groups. Thank fucking God, the Internal Affairs were shifters, so Brock wouldn’t be punished.

Once the scene was contained, Kegon held Brock back, and his captain stood quietly talking to him.

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